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The Irish Revolution episode 1 - We Lived in Dreams

The Irish Revolution episode 1 – We Lived in Dreams

The Irish Revolution episode 1 – We Lived in Dreams: Marking the centenary of the Irish War of Independence, a major documentary project narrated by Cillian Murphy.     Revealing the extraordinary story of how against all odds and armed with little more than idealism, blind faith and courage, a small group of rebels forced Britain, the world’s most powerful […]

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Adolf Island

Adolf Island – investigation of Nazi crime scenes

Adolf Island: Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation of Nazi crime scenes, is chasing clues to an unsolved case: a concentration camp that existed on the British island of Alderney. Witnesses and survivors claimed that thousands died there, but only 389 bodies have ever been found.     Under heavy restrictions imposed by the local government,

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The Wall - A World Divided

The Wall – A World Divided

“The Wall: A World Divided” looks deep inside the revolution that swept across Europe three decades ago — with the November 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall — to understand how this remarkable event helped end the Cold War without a shot being fired.     The Berlin Wall separating East and West Germany was the most potent symbol of

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Bacchus – Ancient God of Ecstasy

Bacchus – Ancient God of Ecstasy

Professor Bettany Hughes investigates the story of Bacchus, god of wine, revelry, theatre and excess, travelling to Georgia, Jordan, Greece and Britain to discover his origins and his presence in the modern world, and explore how ‘losing oneself’ plays a vital role in the development of civilisation.     In this fascinating journey, Bettany begins in Georgia where she discovers

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Nuremberg - Nazis on Trial episode 3 - Rudolf Hess

Nuremberg – Nazis on Trial episode 3 – Rudolf Hess

Nuremberg – Nazis on Trial episode 3 – Rudolf Hess: the whole world was closely observing the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1949 when Nazi-Germany’s most prominent leaders were indicted and punished for wartime atrocities and crimes against humanity. It was the first international trial for such crimes and set standards for today’s prosecution of war crimes all over the

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Nuremberg - Nazis on Trial episode 2 - Hermann Goering

Nuremberg – Nazis on Trial episode 2 – Hermann Goering

Nuremberg – Nazis on Trial episode 2: the whole world was closely observing the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1949 when Nazi-Germany’s most prominent leaders were indicted and punished for wartime atrocities and crimes against humanity. It was the first international trial for such crimes and set standards for today’s prosecution of war crimes all over the world.    

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Nuremberg - Nazis on Trial episode 1 - Albert Speer

Nuremberg – Nazis on Trial episode 1 – Albert Speer

Nuremberg – Nazis on Trial episode 1: the whole world was closely observing the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1949 when Nazi-Germany’s most prominent leaders were indicted and punished for wartime atrocities and crimes against humanity. It was the first international trial for such crimes and set standards for today’s prosecution of war crimes all over the world.   

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Pyramids of Death

Pyramids of Death

Pyramids of Death: they are some of the biggest pyramids on the planet, millions of tons of stone and earth towering above the landscape in a display of massive wealth and power. But it wasn’t the pharaohs that built these pyramids. This is the majestic ancient city of Teotihuacán, Mexico, home to one of the most powerful civilizations of its

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How to Build a Cathedral

How to Build a Cathedral

How to Build a Cathedral: The great cathedrals were the wonders of the medieval world – the tallest buildings since the pyramids and the showpieces of medieval Christianity. Yet they were built at a time when most of us lived in hovels.     Architectural historian Jon Cannon explores who the people were that built them and how they were

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Gods and Monsters – Homer’s Odyssey

Gods and Monsters – Homer’s Odyssey

Gods and Monsters – Homer’s Odyssey: Virginia Woolf said that Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey was ‘alive to every tremor and gleam of existence’. Following the magical and strange adventures of warrior king Odysseus, inventor of the idea of the Trojan horse, the poem can claim to be the greatest story ever told. Now British poet Simon Armitage goes on

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Deadly Battles of World War I

Deadly Battles of World War I

Deadly Battles of World War I: poison gas killed 80,000 soldiers in World War I. Nearly a million more were victims who suffered its lingering effects. Initially the wind distributed chlorine gas across the battlefields of the western front but an arms race quickly developed until one in three shells contained some form of toxic gas.   Deadly Battles of

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The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind the Myth

The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind the Myth

The voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 has come to define the founding moment of America, celebrated each year at Thanksgiving. A lavish new drama documentary by Ric Burns, based on governor William Bradford’s extraordinary eye-witness account, the Mayflower Pilgrims reveals the grim truth behind their voyage across the Atlantic.     The Pilgrims story has come to define the

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